IIRC the GSM frame repetition rate was around 400-440 Hz.

Many electronics will, when exposed to RF like this, behave exactly like the legacy "crystal" radios did - these were nothing more than a basic envelope detector (diode + low pass filter) combined with a tuned resonator.

Hit a crystal radio with a lot of local RF (1/R^2 remember?) and it'll receive a "station" it's not tuned to.

Are you sure the meter was registering the fish reacting to the flash unit, as opposed to simply registering whatever crap the flash was emitting as it was charging?

Don't log into a Google account?

Pretty damned easy...

Even if Apple has the card number - credit cards have built-in fraud protection.

I trust Google with my credit card info, and in the event that they screw up (as of yet, they're one of the few people who HASN'T screwed up at this point with a major breach a la Target and TJ Maxx), the card still has fraud protection.

Wanna bet Samsung's crap is ACH-backed like CurrentC? If it is - STAY THE HELL AWAY.

"Samsung can't afford to give away its position in the smartphone market, and a payments system tailored to customers is a key factor."

Samsung has been losing marketshare because customers HATE being assaulted with Samsung's crappy substandard "me-too" crapware.

This is just more of the same. They just don't get it.

Or to track the total number of completions, not an instantaneous snapshot.

Sadly, thanks to schools such as Kermit, TX - many homeschoolers are trying to avoid just exposure to just such ideas at school.

One of my exes was homeschooled. Primarily because the schools in her area SUCKED. Public schools in the USA have serious issues these days.

"With 1828 ‘seeders’ and just 76 ‘leechers’, True is a fair distance behind the 100th most popular torrent overall: PC game Far Cry 4, which has 1604 ‘seeders’ plus 1260 ‘leechers’."

Keep in mind that:
1) Once a "leecher" finishes downloading, they become a "seeder"
2) Nearly all clients will stop being a "seeder" once a predetermined share ratio is reached

Considering a typical music album is FAR smaller than a game (probably 100-200MB at most, depending on bitrate for encoding, vs. multiple gigabytes for a game - FC4 is over 10GB I'd guess, I can't view TPB to check from my current location), "leechers" become "seeders" far faster, and "seeders" disconnect from the torrent due to hitting the share ratio cap of the client (kTorrent defaults to 1.30 for example) far faster.

If you read the article, the kid already has a suspension on file for daring to bring http://www.amazon.com/The-Book... to school.

Apparently because it had an illustration of a pregnant lady (I'm assuming, since it's a children's book, an appropriately clothed one...)

"Nobody has EVER found that radioactive fly ash despite looking since the 1970s."

http://www.world-nuclear-news....

Nobody has EVER found what the Chinese are developing the capability to MINE?

Possibilities I see are:
1) The media itself is able to withstand many "purge cycles" using acid to dissolve the calcification. I've had good results with citric acid to remove humidifier scale - the problem is that at least with my humidifier, the acid also attacks the wick so eventually the wick falls apart. A plastic mesh wick might be able to withstand this abuse.
2) The vastly increased surface area of this approach might significantly reduce the airflow needed, and especially reduce the backpressure encountered by any air circulation mechanism.

That said, it's still just a glorified swamp cooler so it won't work in many areas. In most of the areas it WOULD work, water is a precious resource.

Yeah. That's why I said that Google did things right as far as I can tell with Keyboard. From talking to various people, the AOSP keyboard gains the nifty "Google" features if you add a few native libraries. So rather than clone-and-own with the original version being left to rot, there's a "plugin" architecture for the Google integration.

If Google had done the same with the other apps that have been left to rot, I don't think you'd be seeing people as concerned about the future of AOSP. But when multiple components of AOSP appear to have been abandoned, and the quality control of GMS-free AOSP has clearly gone way downhill along with that, people start getting nervous.

That said, Kirt McMaster's ranting about the "tyranny of Google" is going way overboard. The truth is, so far Cyngn has done no better than Google in this regard. First they attempted to obtain commercial dual-licensing rights to Focal forcefully using their CLA (fortunately, the CLA doesn't allow them to do that for a GPL app), then they responded to Google moving Gallery and Camera towards a closed-source approach by... Creating their own closed-source Gallery and Camera! Kirt (and the rest of cyngn leadership) are seriously delusional...

The only thing I use Vbox for is to perform firmware updates of devices where the manufacturer decided to only allow updating from Windows

Pretty much:
DJI Phantom 2 Vision+
Sony digital cameras

As long as USB passthrough works I'm golden.

International or USA GS3?

FYI, most of the maintainers for the International version (I9300) want to see Cyngn fail because the leadership screwed one of them (I avoid using the term "us" in this particular instance since while I did Exynos4 work, I never did I9300 work) royally with the Focal relicensing fiasco.

Leadership did make us look like fools by marking N7000 and I9100 as "stable" to inflate the "stable" user counts for CM10.1 to make themselves look better to investors. (Prior to that, a device only got a "stable" build if the maintainers signed off on it, so if a device was mistakenly declared "stable" it was the maintainer who screwed up.)

Um, by definition they're a start-up. They have only been established as a company for approximately two years, with only around 1.25 of those in public existence.

"for a while now" - less than a year for OnePlus One, just a tiny bit over a year for the Oppo N1 - which they completely failed to continue updating by not deploying KitKat until after Lollipop was released.